MANILA: More than half of respondents polled by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said they were “very happy with their love life,” with the rest saying they “could be happier” or they had no love life.
The noncommissioned survey conducted in December last year among 1,200 adults nationwide was released on Feb 11 ahead of Valentine’s Day on Wednesday.
SWS said the respondents were asked which of these phrases “describes your love life”—“very happy,” “could be happier” and “no love life.”
“Fifty-eight per cent of Filipinos were very happy with their love life, 23 per cent could be happier, and 19 per cent have no love life,” the polling group said about its survey, which had a margin of error of ±2.8 per cent.
It also noted a steady increase in the number of Filipinos with “no love life” from 10 per cent in 2002 to 19 per cent in 2023.
SWS said the 58 percent was “the highest since the record-high 59 per cent in 2011.”
As for married couples, “most” of them “are very happy with their love life,” the polling group said—with 76 percent of men and 67 percent of women saying they were “very happy.”
Among “live-in partners,” 69 per cent of men and 64 per cent of women said they were very happy with their love life.
Money (16 per cent), love and companionship (11 per cent), and flowers (10 per cent) ranked high among the top Valentine’s Day “gift wishes” selected by the respondents.
Among those who chose money, 12 per cent were men and 19 per cent were women. Among those who selected love and companionship, 10 per cent were men and 11 per cent were women.
And among those who chose flowers, 7 per cent were men and 13 per cent were women.
Among the respondents who chose “apparel,” 14 per cent were men and 5 per cent were women. And among those who chose “any gift from the heart,” 7 per cent were men and 4 per cent were women.
Other gift wishes selected by the respondents include mobile phones, watch and jewelry, and good family relationships (5 per cent each); food and grocery items, chocolates and health of loved ones (3 per cent each); and a kiss, a child, date or dinner, a cake, and a house (one per cent each). — Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN
